Cap



June 18, 1935. G. DE w. ROLLINS 1=:r AL 2,005,361

CAP

Filed Jan. 16. 1935 INVENTOR5 ATTORNEY Patented Jtme 18, 1935 CAP Grace de W01! Rollins, New Rochelle, and limestine Hines Dobbs, Larchmont, N. Y.

Application Janlpary 16, 1935, Serial No. 2,009

cated, and, at the same time, be attractive as well as useful. The cap is particulafly suited for informal wear at' the beach, while motoring, yachting and while indulging in sports generally, and for use under ail conditions which malte lt desirable to keep the har in place; also for protecting the hair and afiording protection to the eyes from the sun.

Anotherobject of the invention is to produce a cap in a form which makes it acceptafibleior modem sports wear, which is relatively inexpensive and which can be easily adjusted and fitted toany style of hair dressing, and which can be made becoming and in keeping with modem styles. The cap is made from two principal parts including a piece of material of a triangular shape and to which a visor is attached in such a manner as to produce such disposition in the form of the material as will cause the same t0 accommbdate itself to the head of the wearer in a neat and attractive manner.

In the drawing, Fig. 1 illustrates one manner in which material may be out in preparing the same to form the cap.

Fig. 2 illustrates the finished cap as it would appear laid out upon the top of a fiat surface.

Figs. 3 and 4 illustrate one manner in which the cap may be worn.

We preferably make the top covering or hood portion IIJ of the cap from a triangular piece of material which is produced by cutting a substantially square piece of material on one of the diagonais from one corner to the opposite cor ner, and we have found that while the size of the material from which the triangular piece of material may be cut may vary somewhat, an ordinary bandana is very satisfactory. It is to be understood, however, that the material from which the cap is to be made may be prepared, out and decorated in any manner suited to manufacturing requirements and that we choose to illustrate a simple manner of making the cap 50 that its advantages may be made readily apparent to anyone who should desire to make the cap. By suggesting a bandana, the applicability of the wide variety of designs which bandanas provide suggests many possibilities as,ior example, making thetop of the visor from the border or corner of the same bandana'so as'to match the border design of the viser With that.of the hood portion.

The bandana (or other kind of material) should be out in a. substanfialiy straight line between opposite corners'l I, l2, a's illustrated in Fig. 1, or in close proximity to tire corners, and it is an advantage of our invention that it is not nec- 5 essary to shape the edge of the bandana w ch attaches to the viser in any partictflar manner. After the material for the hood portion has been prepared, the other portion of the square may be used to cover the stifi material which is used in the vis0r Il. A

As illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, the stifi material l5, for the visor, which may be of cardbuard, buckram, or other like material, is out in the form of a crescent and preferably is faced on both sides by either the same material fromwhich the hood portion has been cut, or from other material having suitable clor and design to properly match .with' the general color scheme and pattern of the complete cap. For example this material may 56 out from the border or any other part which has the decoratondesred, as at I6and'll, Fig.1.

The viser .is attached to the headcovering material in such a manner that the visorwill lie in the middle portion of the head covering material opposite the corner I8 which is a right angle. The straight edge of the head covering material preferably is sewed directly to the inner curve of the visor, as illustrated in Fig. 2, With the result that a puckering or gathering of the material between the two ends 19, 20 of the Viser results. .This pckering or gathering results in draping the hood portion over the head of' the wearer, starti ng from the line of intersection of the visor with the wearers forehead.

The-right angle corner I8 of the head covering material diapes down the back of the head, as illustrated in Fig. 4, and the two other corners l I, I! are drawn together and tied in such a manner that the visor, as well as the head covering, is held flrmly in place. The knot at the back of the head may be arranged in any manner to'suit the wearer, and itis, of course, adjustable so that the head covering may be made to fit any size head. Als0, if the head covering is to be used Where it is windy, as whengnotofing or sailing, the tightness of the knot and the relation of the head covering may be appropriately adjusted.

What we claim is:

1. As an article et manufacture, a. cap com- 50 prising a piece of 'material for fitting over the head of a wearer to keep the wearers. hair in place, said piece of material being in the form of an isosceles triangle having two like corners and another corner with adacent edges at right 55 angles to each other which isdesignd to drape downwardly at the back of the wearers head and be held in place 'against the wearers hair by the tying together of the other two corners of the triangular piece of material, and a viser attached to said fiee of material at the edge thereof which extends between the two like corners, said viser .having a curved edge which is attached to the straight edge of the piece of material whereby the piece of material is puckered between the ends of the visor to produce bulging of the material' and cause training 01 the same over and about the forehead of the wearer when the cap is secured in place when the cap 15 in use.

2. As an article et manufacture, a cap comprising attached hood and visor portions Which provide a fullness in the hood portion adjacent to and in the vicinity of the visor portion for allowing for the co1iforming of the material of the hood portion to the rounded fore-part of a wearers bead, said hood portion having ends extending 'substantialiy laterallyof the cap f1om the ends .of the viser and converging rearwardly from sald ends so that the cap may be fastened to and cover a wearers head upon the tying together of the ends over the downwardly extending rearward area. of the hood portion at the back of the head, the inner edge of said visor portion being curved and attached to the material of the; hood portion along a. line thereon difierent in configuration from that of the inner edge of the viser, the materiai forming the hood portion of the cap being provided with the desired fu1lness by its attachme'nc to the relatively stifer viser.

GRACE DE WOLF ROLLINS. ERNESIINE HINES DOBBS. 

